This January 19 marked the return of the David Dike Fine
Art Auction, which was recently held in Dallas. David Dike has
operated a Dallas art gallery since 1986 and is an authority on early Texas art and
artists, the specialty of his enterprise. For a number of years, he sponsored
an annual auction of early Texas art in addition to items exhibited in his
gallery on Fairmount Street. Now, after an absence, his early
Texas art auction had returned. My wife and I attended, and were pleased to see
that the event attracted an unusually large number of collectors, other
dealers, artists, curators and other museum people, and a group of art
historians. I am not a collector, per se, but I enjoy attending this
auction because of the educational value of seeing all the art work and talking
to others who are attending about early Texas art. And it is apparent that
events such as this do have an educational value because David Dike, as the
organizer and sponsor, customarily begins the event with a guest lecturer who talks on a
topic dealing with early Texas art or similar subject of interest. This year
the opening lecture was given by long-time collector Edward J. Denari who
talked about his own personal experiences in collecting and evaluating early
Texas art.
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